... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose... Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters - 109. oldalszerző: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 300 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1793 - 268 oldal
...in any age, parts of his character are here adwrirably expressed. Bosvicll's Johnson, $to. II. 587. to examine and refine those grosser propositions,...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 oldal
...a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother, (who was a lady of' another persuasion... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 oldal
...purer air; so that his house was a. university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother, (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 oldal
...accurate men, so that his house was an University in less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation." Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 oldal
...accurate men, so that his house was an University in less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation." Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 oldal
...a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examinfc and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother, (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
| John Britton - 1813 - 802 oldal
...so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as for study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent rendered current in vulgar conversation." Many Many attempts were made, at the instigation of his mother,... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 822 oldal
...so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as for study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent rendered current in vulgar conversation." Many Many attempts were made, at the instigation of his mother,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 544 oldal
...university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose, as study; and to examine and refute those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Before he was twenty-three years of age, he had read over all the Greek and Latin fathers, and was... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 546 oldal
...university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose, as study; and to examine and refute those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Before he was twenty-three years of age, he had read over all the Greek and Latin fathers, and was... | |
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